Chemicals

Meeting diverse needs of global customers

In the Chemical Business, Kao provides products that meet diverse needs in a wide range of industries. R&D divisions and business divisions work together to develop a vast array of chemical products such as fat and oil derivatives and surfactants, functional polymers, and fragrances that use oleo chemicals, all initially produced from natural oils and fats. Such chemical products are supplied for use as materials by Kao Group companies and also deployed globally to satisfy diverse needs in paper and pulp, food products, pharmaceutical products, electronics, civil engineering and construction, information media, electronics, and many other industries.

Main Brands

KALCOL (Oleo Chemicals)

KALCOL, fatty alcohol produced by Pilipinas Kao, Inc. and Fatty Chemical (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., comes in various formulations and formats. It is widely used as an added ingredient or in compounds.

EMAL (Surfactants)

Kao's representative brand of anionic surfactants. Used in a wide range of industrial applications from pharmaceuticals to cosmetics, as a base cleansing ingredient for liquid cleansers and as an emulsifier for emulsion polymerization for resin compounds.

MIGHTY (Performance Chemicals)

The MIGHTY brand is well known throughout the construction industry as a superplasticizer for concrete. Used for producing high-strength, water-resistant concrete, Mighty is used for building expressways and skyscrapers all over the world.